Placket-closing device.



Pate nted Dec. 24, I90l- H. n. SCHUTTE & a. SAENGER.

PLACKET CLOSING DEVICE. (Application .filed. May 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY DIEDRIOH SCHUTTE AND GUSTAV SAENGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLACKET-CLOSING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,654, dated December24, 1901.

Application filed May 7, 1901. Serial No. 59,094- (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY DIEDRIGH SOHUTTE and GUSTAV SAENGER, citizensof the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Placket-Olosing Devices, of which the following is a full andcomplete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for closing the placket of a skirt;and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this classwhich will securely close said placket at all times and .by means ofwhich the skirt may be held to the waist and the belt held in properrelative position; and with this and other objects in view the inventionconsists in a placket-closing device constructed as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separatepartsof our improvement are designated by the same reference charactersin each of the views, and in which 7 Figure 1 is a backview of the upperportion 3 of a skirt provided with the usual placket and ourimprovedmeans for closing the same; Fig. 2, a perspective back view of theclosing device detached-from the skirt; Fig. 3, a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4, a view similar to Figs. 1 and 2, showing theoperation of a part of the device.

In the drawings forming part of this specification we have shown at 5the upper portion of a skirt provided with the usual placket 6, and inthe practice of our invention we provide a placket-closure devicecomprising two flat parts 7 and 8, each of which consists of a centralstrip of steel or other suitable metal provided with a fabric, covering9 and which are pivotally connected at their lower ends,

as shown at 10, and the part ,8 overlaps the part 7, and said parts ofthe placket-closing device are curved, so as to conform with the shapeof the body below the waist and as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The steel strips of the parts 7 and 8 may be secured in their fabriccovering in any desired manner, and said fabric covering is stitchedthereon along the edges thereof in the usual manner, and the part 7 isprovided at its upper end with an outwardly and downwardly directed hook11, which is designed in practice to hold the waist in position.

The skirt 5 is provided at the opposite sides of the placket with flaps12 and 13, and in practice the part 7 of the placket-closer is stitchedonto the outside of the flap 12, while the part 8 is stitched to theinside of --the flap 13.

The part 7 is provided centrally thereof with a fiat metal clip or plate14, preferably U shaped in cross-section and passed on over the edge ofthe part 7, as indicated in Fig. 2, and the part 8 is provided with ahook 15, whichis secured to the inner side thereof and the shank or bodyportion of which is covered by the fabric covering of the part 8, and inconnecting the ends of the belt and closing the placket the part 8 isdrawn over the part 7 and the hook 15 passes back of the metal plate orclip 14 and back of the part 7 and prevents said parts from separatingat the middle portion thereof.

It will be observed that the metallic clip or U -shaped plate 14 is nota hook and does not operate in the manner of such, nor does it clasp orin any way project around the opposite member 8, neither is itpermanently attached to the member 7, which it engages.

The special object of this clip or plate is to form a metallicedge anddeterminate bearing portion for that part of the member 7 which isengaged by the hook 15 on the opposite member 8 and is frictionallyengaged thereby.

Each of the members is covered with fabric, and they are sewed to therespective edges of the placket. tallic U-shaped plate or clip 14 thehook 15 would be compelled to engage a fabric-covered surface,and suchsurface would be found sewed to the skirt, or else it would be necessaryto mark conspicuously upon the mem- "ber 7 instructions to avoid sewingthe said member to the skirt at the portion or point Therefore withoutthe 1116-.

where contact of the hook 15 is intended or expected. By the use of ourinvention, however, the placket-closer may be completely formed and themembers covered with the ICC fabric and the hook 15 secured to themember 8, and then the U-shaped plate or clip 14 may be manually appliedto the outer edge of the member 7 in such position as to register withthe already-applied hook 15 and in such manner as to clasp or engage oneither side of the member 7, whereupon the said U- shaped plate or clipis pressed, stamped, or otherwise secured in position, and as it isimpossible to sew through the said clip or plate there will naturallyand necessarily be formed a pocket between the under surface of the saidplate and the outer face of the skirt immediately beneath the same,andinthis pocket fits the hook 15 when it is inserted or passed around theplate 14 after the two members have been brought together to close theplacket. In this manner a neat peculiarly effective binding or lockingdevice for the placket is formed. Moreover, the hook 15 is sewed througha fabric of the under surface of the member 8 of the placket-closer, andtherefore this hook, as well as the U-shaped plate or clip 14, may besecured at any desired height or adjustment relatively to the respectivemembers of the placket-closer, or when applied their position or heightmay be altered to improve the fit or set of the placket portion of theskirt, and they may also be removed by any dressmaker or wearer of thegarment who does not desire to employ them, and they may, furthermore,be readily attached to placket closers of any desired type, size,quality, or material, according to whether the person ordering themdesires these attachments to be used.

The part 8 of the placket-closure device is also provided at its upperend with a hook 16, which is adapted to engage with an ordinary eye,loop, or similar device 17, secured to the belt at the opposite side ofthe placket, and when the parts are thus connected the placket isentirely closed and remains closed, and no movement of the skirt or thebottom portion thereof can open said placket. In practice we also secureto the bottom portion of the waist or to the waistband a loop or link18, (shown in Fig. 4,) with which the hook 11 engages, and this devicesecurely holds the skirt and waist together and prevents theirseparation, and the link or loop 18 may be provided with a strip or tape19, by which it may be secured to the waist or to the waistband. Theends of the waistband may be provided at the back with an independentconnection, if desired; but the hook 16 and eye or loop 17 will servefor this purpose, and no further fastening device or devices arenecessary. In stitching the part 7 of the placket-closing device to theflap 12 of the parts movably connected and one of which is adapted tooverlap the other, the overlapping part or member being providedintermediate of its ends, upon its under surface, with a hook whichprojects inwardly from the outer edge thereof; and the outer edge of theoverlapped or under member being provided with a metallic U -shapedplate or clip which clasps the edge of the said member and engages onboth sides thereof and is adapted to be engaged by the hook of theoverlapping member which when the placket-fastener is secured to a skirtforms a pocket between the under member thereof and the skirt to receivethe hook of the upper member which engages the said plate or clip.

2. A placket-closure device comprising two parts movably connected andone of which is adapted to overlap the other, each of the said partsbeing surrounded by a casing of fabric, the overlapping part or memberbeing pro vided intermediate of its ends, upon its under surface, .witha hook which projects inwardly from the outer edge thereof and issecured to the fabric thereof; and the outer edge of the overlapped orunder member being provided with a metallic U-shaped plate or clip whichclasps the edge of the said member and engages on both sides thereof andis adapted to be engaged by the hook of the overlapping member, andwhich is compressed or frictionally secured thereon over the fabriccasing thereof and which when the placket-fastener is sewed to a skirtthrough the fabric forms a pocket between the under member and the saidskirt to receive the hook of the upper member which engages the saidplate or clip.

3. A placket-closu re device comprising two parts pivotally connected attheir lower ends and one of which is adapted to overlap the other, andin practice, lies upon the outside thereof; the said overlapping part ormember being provided centrally only upon its under surface with a hookwhich commences at the outer edge of the said member and projectsinwardly of the said member and of the skirt and lies entirely beneaththe said overlapping member whereby it may be hooked around theoverlapped or under member; and the said overlapped or under memberbeing provided upon its outer edge with a metallic U-shaped plate orclip which is frictionally engaged upon the outer edge thereof, and notextending completely around the same and being adapted to be verticallyor longitudinally adjusted or moved upward upon the under or overlappedmember and being adapted to be presence of the subscribing witnesses,this 6th frictionally engaged by the hook upon the unday of May, 1901.

der surface of the overlapping member whereby retraction of theoverlapping member and SCHUTTE' 5 consequent opening of the placket ispositively prevented. Witnesses:

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as SYLVESTER A. BROPHY,

our invention we havesigned our names, in LOUIS GRAGER.

